April Showers

It's finally Spring! Like many of my fellow knitters/bloggers, the fact that Spring is finally showing up seems to be all that we can talk about right now. While I'm envious at my east coast friends that they are already experiencing temps in the 70s, it's still in the low 50s here in Madison. Spring is almost here... almost. But I'm not complaining about the 50s. I'll take what I can get.

It gives me the opportunity to wear some of my more light weight knits without fear of getting too warm. Like the Pretty Lace Pretty Shawl that I recently finished. Here you can see it being blocked with my brand new blocking wires. It was definitely a learning process to figure out how to block appropriately, but I can definitely see a change in the knit after blocking.

I modified this pattern quite a bit. First, I added 2 more pattern repeats to the body of the shawl. It originally called for 5, but it just seemed SO small, so I went to 7 before starting the lace edging. For the lace, I decided to knit the lace edging until I could knit no more. Which ended up being 12 rows instead of the originally called for 7.

I finished with only a few yards left of my skein. I weaved in my ends and off to the sink it went for blocking. I knew immediately that it still felt too small. Its definitely not shawl size... I wouldn't even call it a shawlette. Maybe kerchief? As that is the only way I can see wearing it.

But, regardless, I'm finished! It was my first shawl-ish pattern that I attempted and I think it came out alright. It's a pretty nice with a lovely light wool yarn that does keep my neck and chest warm when I wear it. I've been recently using a lone cufflink as a shawl pin to help it stay in place and I'm kinda liking that..